Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

This goes back to a broader question about Irish Water. When the Minister came in here to make his famous "legacy" speech about what would happen, he did not give us the numbers. We had to go back to our offices and go on Twitter to get some figures. We got some basic figures about the whole parameters of Irish Water an hour or two hours later. We still do not know how it is going to work. We have spent €500 million or €600 million on these useless meters. Some of our female constituents have phoned us to tell us they have to put on boiler suits and lie on the ground to try to lift the lids off these meters and look at them. They find them totally impossible to read. The whole thing, from start to finish, is kind of Alan in Wonderland stuff. It is farcical.

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